The specifics of teaching a foreign language to false beginners in non-linguistic universities

Abstract

Despite recent active popularization of foreign languages in our modern society, the issue of teaching languages in non-linguistic universities still remains relevant, especially when a considerable proportion of newly enrolled students define their level of foreign language proficiency as false beginners. The authors of the study analyzed a number of national and foreign scientific papers on the issue of teaching false beginners in a non-linguistic university and noted that this issue has not been resolved yet within the context of the methodology of teaching foreign languages. Nowadays, there is an insufficient number of experiments on teaching false beginners aimed at improving their language training efficiency. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of false beginners’ language proficiency and to develop a hybrid model of teaching false beginners in a non-linguistic university. Methods of generalization and systematization (analysis of scientific literature on the research topic), abstract modeling of the situation, observation and experiment were used in the study. The research will be interesting for foreign language teachers who work with students of non-linguistic programmes of study.